Discovery Box1 Kings 6:5 
Context6:5 He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it. 1
1 Kings 6:19-23
Context6:19 He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord could be placed there. 6:20 The inner sanctuary was 30 feet 2 long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He plated it with gold, 3 as well as the cedar altar. 4 6:21 Solomon plated the inside of the temple with gold. 5 He hung golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary and plated the inner sanctuary 6 with gold. 6:22 He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold, as well as the altar inside the inner sanctuary. 7
6:23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubs of olive wood; each stood 15 feet 8 high.
1 tn Heb “and he built on the wall of the temple an extension all around, the walls of the temple all around, for the main hall and for the holy place, and he made side rooms all around.”
2 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (this measurement occurs three times in this verse).
3 tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).
4 tn Heb “he plated [the] altar of cedar.”
5 tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).
6 tn Heb “it.”
7 tn Heb “all the temple he plated with gold until all the temple was finished; and the whole altar which was in the inner sanctuary he plated with gold.”
8 tn Heb “ten cubits” (a cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm).
